Wednesday 14 OCT20:00 · talk 19:15
HERMESensemble / E-XXI: STOP & BeRoer
DE SINGEL · Theaterstudio · Antwerpen-Zuid
12 October18 October2026
This week Live in Antwerp
ADIA VANHEERENTALS ALI CHAHROUR ANAÏS VIJGEN AROOJ AFTAB CATHARINA EVENS CELLO OCTET E-XXI ERYKAH BADU HATIS NOIT HÉLOÏSE HERMESENSEMBLE I H8 CAMERA IGNATZ ILIAS KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN LORAINE JAMES LUISA MARIA ‘MASHA’ ALYOKHINA MAYA VERLAAK MOOR MOTHER NYOKABI KARIUKI PUSSY RIOT QASIM NAQVI R.OMY RC WILLIAMS RUDY TROUVÉ SANAM SENSELI SHISHANI YAMEN MARTINI YANNICK PEETERS
Monday—Sunday
This week
Live music, performance and artist-led events across Antwerp.
WednesdayOCT14
20:00 · talk 19:15
HERMESensemble / E-XXI: STOP & BeRoer
DE SINGEL · Theaterstudio · Antwerpen-Zuid
Stockhausen’s STOP is rebuilt as an Antwerp version in which one of six instrumental groups becomes live electronics. Maya Verlaak’s companion work uses rotating STOP signs to control sound and pitch.
WednesdayOCT14
20:00
Literaire Carrousel: Wortels / Roots
Het Bos · Bosbar · Antwerpen
Letterveld, PEN Vlaanderen, Cossee and Hard//hoofd bring short literary contributions into dialogue with live music by Yamen Martini around inherited places, languages and memories.
ThursdayOCT15
Doors 20:00
I H8 Camera + Héloïse
Het Bos Club · Antwerpen
Héloïse moves between voice, drums, tap and loop-built minimalism. Rudy Trouvé then directs I H8 Camera’s six-piece lineup through rock, jazz, krautrock, no wave and post-punk without fixed songs.
FridayOCT16
Dinner 20:30 · club 23:00
INTRO #3
Het Bos Club · Antwerpen
A communal dinner with Senseli opens the night before Ilias, Luisa and r.omy take over a newly built scenography until 05:30.
FridayOCT16
20:30
Catharina Evens: Artist in Residence
Rataplan · Borgerhout
Evens turns the acoustic piano into speaker and sculpture, using live processing, resonating electronics, small motors, solenoids and 3D-printed parts to open the instrument from within.
FridayOCT16
21:15
SANAM: Boundary-Defying Synthesis
DE SINGEL · Muziekstudio · Antwerpen-Zuid
Six musicians from Beirut transform traditional Egyptian songs and Arabic poetry into an explosive ritual of improvised rock, free jazz and noise.
SaturdayOCT17
20:00
Ali Chahrour: When I Saw the Sea
DE SINGEL · Theaterstudio · Antwerpen-Zuid
Three women whose lives are directly tied to Lebanon’s Kafala system take the stage in a work of dance, live music and testimony about exploitation, resilience and justice.
SaturdayOCT17
20:00 · Qasim Naqvi 21:30
Cello Octet: Borrowed Time
DE SINGEL · Rode Zaal · Antwerpen-Zuid
Eight live cellos converse with recorded voices in works by Moor Mother, Loraine James, Nyokabi Kariuki, Shishani, Arooj Aftab and Qasim Naqvi with Hatis Noit.
SundayOCT18
15:00
Anaïs: Strings Attached — try-out
Rataplan De Living · Borgerhout
Anaïs Vijgen premieres new songs with Adia Vanheerentals on saxophone and Yannick Peeters on double bass, cutting through the project’s imagined strings by way of improvisation.
SundayOCT18
20:00
Pussy Riot: RIOT DAYS
DE SINGEL · Rode Zaal · Antwerpen-Zuid
Maria Alyokhina’s account of protest, trial and imprisonment becomes an evolving live work of music, theatre and multimedia, newly extended through Political Girl.
Next eight weeks
Forward look
Upcoming dates worth keeping in view.
ALMOST SOLD OUT
Soil Biographies
Farida Amadou and Louis Vanhaverbeke turn soil into instrument, landscape and co-performer in a physical ritual of sound and transformation.
NEW QUARTET
Alex Koo: Kimono Garden
Koo’s private electronic album is reopened by a quartet of piano, synths, loops, cello, EWI and percussion.
ALMOST SOLD OUT
The Handover + Abdullah Miniawy Trio
Two linked sets move from hypnotic rural rhythms, drones and psychedelia into poetic vocals, trombones and contemporary Egyptian sound.
NEWLY DISCOVERED
Soundpainting jam
Karen Claessens directs a live soundpainting ensemble with Hanne De Backer, Carla Biber, Jaouad and Daniel Menezes before opening the floor to participating musicians.
MIXED AVAILABILITY
FC Bergman: Guernica Guernica
A large-scale, wordless image-world by FC Bergman, presented across four nights with date-by-date availability ranging from sold out to tickets remaining.
NEWLY DISCOVERED
De Kloe: Vanity Fair album release
De Kloe splices unstable club rhythms, obscure samples, fractured lyrics and serrated guitar into continuously mutating structures for the release of Vanity Fair.
NOT TO MISS
Nacht van de Experimentele Film 2026
OFFoff reconstructs 1967 expanded-cinema works with simultaneous 16mm projectors, live HERMESensemble musicians, performance and four-channel sound.
NEWLY DISCOVERED
Elena Farahani
The Iranian recorder player leaves her usual baroque practice to reinterpret Persian traditions associated with Mohammad Reza Shajarian in a close living-room concert.
TICKETS AVAILABLE
The Golden Stool
Görges Ocloo interweaves opera, African percussion, beats, theatre and dance in the story of Asante resistance leader Nana Yaa Asantewaa.
TICKETS AVAILABLE
Wayne Shorter & esperanza spalding: (…) IPHIGENIA
Shorter and spalding dismantle the conventional myth through fluid orchestral writing, jazz, collective voices and a protagonist distributed across multiple bodies.
NEWLY DISCOVERED
Anne van de Star + Skordatura
Van de Star turns bass-clarinet recordings into physical, transducer-driven electronics before Skordatura answers with angular grooves and abrupt ensemble interventions.
NEWLY DISCOVERED
OLA TUNJI / Stann
OLA TUNJI channels Coltrane, Sanders and Ayler; Stan Nieuwenhuis transforms cornet studies through granular delay into a multiplied one-person brass ensemble.
TICKETS AVAILABLE
La Noche de Aparición
A playful wordless horror story combining migration, Mexican myth, paranormal experience, Latin American pop culture, masks, choreography and original music.
NEWLY DISCOVERED
Lisa Vereertbrugghen: Again Forever
Four performers approach slow dancing as the queer, potentially subversive sister of rave culture, accompanied by Michael Langeder’s live sound.
A short train away
Brussels
When the reasons to travel are unusually strong.
NEWLY DISCOVERED
Ignatz presents I Don’t Know
AB Salon · Experimental piano / voice / improvisation
€10 · student €8